105: Myrna Daramy: Digital Media Optimisation & The Power of Image Search

August 10, 2023

“Know who you are what you do and why you do it.”

MYRNA DARAMY

Hey everyone! It’s Sally here, from Studio Ninja. Today’s episode is all about Myrna Daramy.

Myrna Daramy is a tech-savvy Marketing Strategist, and the founder of Myrna & Co, a technology coaching firm specializing in digital media marketing strategy, analytics, and ADA Compliance.  Over the last 20 years, Myrna has educated over 500k professionals and transformed countless small business brands by combining her expertise in digital analytics, technology management, and SEO with a deep understanding of all things creative.  She takes pride in helping her clients peel back the layers of their brand, utilize the latest and greatest technology tools, and return to them an optimized digital footprint that converts better than ever before.

Check out some of the biggest points from Myrna’s interview below:

  • Myrna’s journey in servicing the Photography Industry
  • What is a Digital Optimisation Coach?
  • Why would you business benefit from this kind of coach?

  • The importance of creating a solid online foundation
  • Why Image Search is a powerful tool
  • How to use Image Search to your advantage

  • What she would do differently if she could start her career all over again
  • The importance of creating an experience
  • How to create an experience in a digital world

  • The one thing that made a difference to Myrna’s business!

What is Digital Media Optimisation?

Yeah. So this is totally a phrase that I coined myself because I realized it wasn’t just about someone’s digital home. I call it the DG Home. It wasn’t just about their website. It was about everywhere and anywhere. They’re showing up online and how they’re doing it and the matter of that of optimizing themselves so that they can be seen, they can be connected with and they can make it easy for their customers. So I coined this phrase digital media optimization, and I actually have a coined tagline that says DMO is the new SEO, which basically means that it’s now a holistic approach that people need to take if they’re going to have a business that’s going to try to engage with customers online. So how did how did it come about and what’s my day to day? It kind of just organically grew that way. Just like SEO is an organic approach.

It’s something that just naturally happens over time. It grew to be this thing where people started asking me a whole bunch of questions. I became this like hot button of Mirna will probably know this answer. And you know, so that’s kind of how it works. So is a day to day. What’s my day look like between meetings with clients, meeting with some of their marketing teams and then also trying to implement some strategies around how to better engage with their prospective customers is always a part of the day too.

Where do you start with an Online Presence?

So my advice would be to know where you currently are. I mean, I always start off with all of my clients with like an audit just to kind of get an idea of a baseline to say, look, if you are active on Instagram or if you’re active on LinkedIn, what does that profile look like? Like what type of engagement you’re getting there? You know, if you really rely on your website for business and you really, truly see it as your sales person who works 24 hours a day, we would want to do an audit on that to to see is it actually showing up in a Google search? Are people actually filling out your forms when you request any type of call to action? What’s the user experience like? So that’s the first step.

I always start with the let’s know your baseline of all the things you want to do. Because here’s the thing I tell all of my clients all the time too. You don’t have to be everywhere all the time. You could be one place and just do it really well for a moment. And if you have interest or you see the need to be somewhere else, then we work on that too. But it’s not this hashtag. All the things that you need to try to like take care of and like get control of. Yeah, that’s where I would start.

If you could add one final piece of advice, something that’s made a difference in your personal life or your business life, what would that piece of advice be?

That one thing would be get your claws solid, who you are, what you do, who you do it for, and where you do it, if applicable, is key because that’s going to be that tagline thing that you can use as an elevator pitch. It’ll be that thing that connects you with customers along their journey and you can utilize it throughout any single digital touchpoint. So I would say do that.

Thank you!

Thanks again to you all for joining us and a huge thanks to Myrna for joining us on the show!

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That’s it for me this week, I hope you all enjoyed this episode.

See you soon,

Sally

About Myrna Daramy

Myrna Daramy is a tech-savvy Marketing Strategist, and the founder of Myrna & Co, a technology coaching firm specializing in digital media marketing strategy, analytics, and ADA Compliance.  Over the last 20 years, Myrna has educated over 500k professionals and transformed countless small business brands by combining her expertise in digital analytics, technology management, and SEO with a deep understanding of all things creative.